Wonderful work. I installed it in 4.12 on my Samsung NC10 netbook - after finding the libgee pet - and it works very well. It's great for browsing documentation, like your earlier html-viewer, only better.

Lobster, is there no icon in the menu?
Then I must change the "category" entry in /usr/share/applications/PuppyBrowser.desktop to a different one. I just had tested the menu-entry in lxde.
*edit: in Puppy 4.2 it works, just takes a moment to appear.

Vovchik,
yes, libgee is needed for the bookmarks.
It can be installed with PetGet.
I could replace the lists with fixed arrays, but must check, if it would have other advantages.
Libgee lists have an unlimited length, while arrays are fixed, so they would need some tricks to allow a non-limited amount of bookmarks. But it would be possible, so we had one dependency less.

Barry,
in the next 2 weeks I finish my C# course, and must work on my final project (C#2vala), so there will be not much time for the browser.
So it will remain like it is I think until then.

There is one issue, that is a showstopper:
if you click on links, that should open a new window, nothing happens.

E.g. the links on dotpups.de use "target=_blank", and do not work.
I have not found out yet, how to solve it, and if someone knows a solution, I would add it quickly.
A workaround is, to drag those links in the URL-entry, and click on the "ok" button.

Apart from that, it basically works as I like, I just would like to add support for tabbed browsing later, and mabe a very simple config dialog.

The pet included old sourcecode without active pwget button (but the binary was the current).
I updated the pet with the current source, and added some comments in it, to make it easier readable.
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Mark, you must be dependent on some libraries from Seamonkey?
Would it be viable to use this in Puppy - allowing users to download a bigger browser if required? Preferences for Opera, Seamonkey, Firefox, Konqueror, Flock, Dillo etc would no longer be an issue . . .

It can be used with Seamonkey 1.x, or Xulrunner 1.8.x.
PuppyBrowser does not replace Seamonkey, it is just a reduced grafical Interface written in pure Gtk. This should explain the faster start, as the Seamonkey interface is very complex to allow extensions and such, while PuppyBrowser just wants to offer the basic requirements to browse websites.
But it requires a full gecko installation (= Seamonkey or Xulrunner).

Xulrunner is a "seamonkey for developers", without own browser-interface, but supplying the Gecko engine and all the required stuff to write own applications based on Gecko.
Among the utilities is gtkmozembed.so, the library, that has wrappers in Vala/Genie.

As it is no longer supported in Seamonkey2 or Xulrunner 1.9, we need a new library for those newer browsers, or must install Xulrunner in an own folder in next versions of Puppy.
I have no idea, what kind of new library will follow for the new browsers.

I've been experimenting with trying to get the browser to run in fat_ free dillo on my 486 and realise it must actually need seamonkey, because I got all the dependant libs but still get an error, "TLS data" in regard to one of the libs. Giving up on that one

Next step is to remaster a 4.1.2 of puppy adding the puppybrowser and doing a full install to the 486. Methinks that should work. Seamonkey has next to no chance of running on that box due to ram constraints.

I am not certain, that it is enough, though.
If it works, you could add the commands to a startscript or to "puppy-browser".

Maybe several files could be deleted, as we need no "xul", but only gecko.
I have not investigated yet, how far it can be strupped down, I want to try it, once I added tabs to the browser.
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